iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New blog post from me that is a bit of a doozy. It takes an evolutionary biology look at Recursive Self Improvement. In the spirit of a blog post, its got toy models, a coda with something I'd totally missed before writing it, etc... joebakcoleman.com/blog/2026-10...

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Pitfalls in AI Self-Improvement · Joe Bak-Coleman

The evolutionary misconceptions behind recursive self-improvement

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ConradTM @conradtm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Actually a subtle nuance to this that makes it a lot worse. Pretty much anyone in management necessarily views AI as something that can blur the boundaries between roles so those closest to programmers (QA) get tasked with writing automated tests in bulk for every single bug.

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The Ghost Ship EverGemma @evergemma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The massive chunk being syphoned off to private schools is one of the main things the kids are protesting about. There's no way the fucking BBC correspondent doesn't know that, but it doesn't get mentioned here.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's presumably half arsed attempt to deal with the already falling rates of building, the government just has no other suggestion than boost developer profits with public money.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The sad answer to this is that a lot of people in power are very comfortable with harm. They do not care at all about csam or racist abuse or disinformation. And they are obsessed with likes, follower count and having their ego boosted by panels and talks. That’s all it is. Cruelty is the point

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I guess I'm old, as I was wondering why there was a human on stage at a Gorrillaz gig, but apparently they've been doing it since 2010

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Isn't it 'cos they needed to use up the whole 6 seconds, so intentional safety but using up all the clock so there wasn't another play for them to score? If they'd just done it simply there would've been another play for the other team anyway?

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think people should just stop accepting any old data announced in a poll by a student housing company looking for free press. In fact I think we should just ignore polls all round www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/h...

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How commissioned polling is laundered into the press

Guest blog: The Times and The Telegraph reported polls secretly arranged by Reform UK without telling readers who commissioned them. Ben Phillips on why polling transparency matters, and why newspaper...

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But it hugely impacts Andy Burnham, so of course it's purely about his ego, so it has to be fixed immediately.

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Seeing the BBC tech “journalists” like Tidy and Kleinman breathlessly report AI doomerism as truth, is sad. Not just because they have the resources to report more accurately, but because they choose instead to listen to their Twitter mates who know nothing.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When the UK stopped requiring it be in gallons almost all the petrol stations moved over very quickly, long before the requirement for it to be litres. But the change wasn't at the same time as a roll over of digits.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hooter is just nose, so the bowler (Razullah in his first match) tried to get it to bounce high up towards the nose of the batsman (Brook) but because he was ready for it he hoicked (a hard but inelegant cross bat shot) to the boundary bouncing once.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I like that after having to resign for being not quite sane enough to be president following such antics, he was then elected a senator - political jobs must have levels of sanity I never quite realised.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

No, no, you're so special but just this slightest, tiniest bit wrong, that the infinite supernatural will come along and fix that because you're such a special little boy. Even though you're basically perfect any way. Maybe you just didn't know your employees kid had ricketts?

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes, but they're weirdly all doing the exact same policies in the exact same smarmy and incompetent way, so you still need to worry a bit. I'm sure this was just him being personally useless and not understanding what he was actually saying vs what he thought he was saying though.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In the UK the police wouldn't accept $30 equivalent, they're not interested in trivial lost property - I think most would give it to the store though. Mainly 'cos the only people carrying cash are those most in need if they lose it so there is a chance it would be recovered by them asking.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Obviously it makes sense that they won't be able to deliver that many houses. It does not make sense that they ministers keep talking as if they are, it's deeply dishonest and misleading. 1980 is not the "post war period". Endless dishonesty by ministers pretending they're delivering is bad.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you're an organisation where the public has access to, and you're not banning these, I can only assume you are pro-pervert, and those are the customers you want.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Starmer already announced this, his had drones too, why is Burnham just re-announcing the same policy - it didn't work a year ago, what's different this time?

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I think they're life rafts, but I think they're the sort of life rafts that inflate on contact with the water so just unused ones which inflated when it sank and they came in contact with sea.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

41 years ago, Monty Brewster made a lot of money investing in an iceberg business delivering icebergs to the Sahara, suggesting that it's not "sufficiently advanced for commercial use" is crazy and shows they haven't even watched that high profile documentary!

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If I wanted to protect the most prestigious and highly paid jobs for the social groups who usually hold them I'd probably design an education system that discouraged poorer children from studying the entry qualifications for these jobs as early as possible..

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The rule is normally expressed as "lower case with an initial cap for acronyms where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word" And British English also has a huge preference for saying anything as a word rather than spelling out letters that probably ends up as most of them.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You'll be telling me next that if a kid resists the marshmallow it's not about their innate ability to defer gratitude but how much they trust the person offering it...

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Maybe they think the tax rises will be based on the housing wealth the pensioners built due to the artificially low tax rates when these pensioners were earning and inflating house values.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Were you in a brewery at the time of writing?

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

But how big the tide is depends on the wind too, and maybe a bigger than expected tide would've washed away the beach volleyball equipment. Always worth having the excuse ready.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Over broadcast 25s, not much different to other streaming

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A scottish restaurant almost certainly could serve burgers rare too, should they wish to, just need to use appropriate methods to ensure the e-coli etc. is dealt with - www.ncass.org.uk/resources/le...

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Rare Burgers Q&A - NCASS

The ongoing debate surrounding the controversial topic of when, how and why some people can serve rare (or 'pink') burgers is one that can leave you confused. Extremely confused. That's why we've prep...

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No, not really, the hand of god is significant in England football history of course, but that was still mostly Maradona in terms of rivalry I'd say, so if he was playing maybe. It's not Germany, and otherwise any other team that you're likely to meet in the semis is going to be similar "rivalry".

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I don't think independence would work, there's no history of indigenous government, perhaps get the experienced leaders of the McDonald and Heard islands to help administer as they have quite a lot of ties with the locals and did well with the Trump tarriffs.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It was a hot day, he was worried about his big photoshoot with the top photographer didn't want sweat stains on nice dress shirt - the jacket would've overshadowed the nice young pump sales guy, so he took it off whilst the photographer was checking the lighting etc. Hilarious mix-up on photo desk.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It's a very uninteresting story if all it is is that the survey participants interpreted the question differently, it's not a story at all other than a linguistics one. It's only a story that gets published to push the bigoted pensioner readership. Responsible journalism would avoid this misinfo.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It would probably have been a responsible idea to investigate that before publishing it as boomer bait in your newspaper then.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Especially when it could easily be a linguistics question and just a change in the interpretation of the meaning of words as the language changes over generations, but the biases always show in the interpreter.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Broadcast news not being able to platform Farage without giving equal coverage of Binface for the entire time of the election will certainly be nice

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's happened in England in soccer, 2004 the now MK Dons moved from Wimbledon to Milton Keynes. It was pretty controversial though, and the replacement Wimbledon team is now in the same league.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

But that "cooling" just moves heat into the house, which for some of the year is a positive, it's also - because the ambient temperature is low and because the load on the computer is much less, the cooling requirements are easily met by passive cooling, or at most a fan.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Cooling is not relevant in the domestic environment for most of the world for most of the year - we don't run air conditioning in most of the world for all but a tiny part of the year, and for the winter months, the heat is a positive.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Surely they use the same watts per token for the actual compute - however there's no cost of data transmission, and no energy requirement to cool the device for most of the year in most of the world. Efficiency of use of the hardware yes, but I don't see this as "FAR"

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Exactly, when Fred who works as a Barista is off sick, people don't go without coffee, Barney comes in and does the Baristaing.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Is the oddity not that people are taking it seriously as a policy proposal to achieve anything, rather than thinking of it as pure media theatre designed to appeal to "anti-judge" racists?

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Agree - It just hows up the absolutely banality and uselessness of political commentators, that one is willing to make such a comment in public.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Yeah, but saying that wouldn't get you on the telly, I think that's all it is, Narcissists are ruining the world.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Purple Bricks though, no actual agent, 'cos I imagine even the most inept estate agent (and boy are many inept) would've suggested removing that during the marketing...

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I think it depends if you have "legitimate concerns" for that anger, then finding members on facebook is fine.

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My daughter's school relies on 2FA on the kids phones for access to various school systems, interesting to know what they're going to do come a ban, everyone gets a yubikey?

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Jim Ley @jibberjim.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It's actually a sop to the pub industry, getting the "kids" off their phones early enough that they can be down the pub drinking.

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